A full share on the NL champion St. Louis Cardinals was worth $228,300, down from $284,275 last year for AL champion Detroit.

The players’ pool included 50 percent of the gate receipts from the two wild-card games, and 60 percent from the first three games of each division series and the first four games of each league championship series and the World Series.

Full shares were worth $129,278 for the Tigers, $108,037 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, $37,316 for the Oakland Athletics, $35,559 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, $35,280 for the Tampa Bay Rays, $34,012 for the Atlanta Braves, $15,285 for the Cincinnati Reds and $15,107 for the Cleveland Indians.

It’s the ultimate display of Red Sox fandom: owning strands of David Ortiz’s World Series-winning beard. The hairs that Ortiz and Shane Victorino shaved off earlier this month are being auctioned for a men’s health charity. Each “beard ball trophy” features a glass case holding a clump of whiskers and the razor used to trim them a few days after …